Early Career Track - Preparing for Promotion

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CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop: Early Career Track: Preparing for Promotion (4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)

Session Description: Do you know what steps you need to take to prepare for your next promotion? Whether this is preparing a tenure case, climbing the technical ladder, or stepping into a management role, this session will teach you what you can be doing now to prepare yourself for that next big promotion.

Presenters:
Nancy Amato, Professor, Texas A & M
Mary Czerwinski, Research Area Manager, Microsoft Research

Bios:
Nancy Amato
Nancy M. Amato is a professor of computer science and engineering at Texas A&M University where she co-directs the Parasol Lab, is Deputy Director of the Institute for Applied Math and Computational Science, and chairs a campus-wide bioinformatics alliance. She received degrees from Stanford, Berkeley and UIUC. She is an IEEE Fellow, an NSF CAREER Award recipient, a speaker for the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program and previously an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer. She co-directs the CDC/CRA-W DREU program and Distinguished Lecture Series. Her research interests include motion planning, robotics, computational biology and geometry, and parallel computing.

Mary Czerwinski
Mary Czerwinski is a Research Area Manager at Microsoft Research, where she manages many diverse areas of human-computer interaction. Mary has been an avid participant in the ACM SIGCHI community, sitting on the SIGCHI Executive Committee for 10 years, chairing CHI 2008, UIST 2005, Papers Chair for CHI 2000 and UIST 2010, in addition to many other conference volunteer roles. Mary was recently awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service award and was also inducted into the ACM CHI Academy. Mary has ~100 publications in HCI and psychology, and holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology.

Blog post by KarenT here: Preparing for Promotion